Thill-coupling.



Patented .lune I2, |900.

W. W. GARNIER.

MNN/

innen.

ArnNr l/VILLIAM lV. GARNER, 0F NEW SHARON, IOWA.

THILL-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,419, dated June 12, 1900.

Application tied May z2, 1899.

To all whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. GARNIER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Sharon, in the county of Mahaska and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Thill- Coupling, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to prevent the dangers and accidents incident to shafts and poles becoming accidentally detached from the axles of vehicles on account of nuts on bolts and other fas'- tenin g devices in thill-couplings getting loose or in some manner proving defective and un-A safe.

My invention consists in alduplex bearer adapted to engage journals formed integral on a thill-iron and fastening devices adapted for detachably locking the duplex bearer in direct engagement with the journals and arranged and combined with an axle, as hereinafter' set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View showing my thill-coupling applied to a piece of an axle as required in practical use for detachably connecting and securely fastening thill-irons to the axle of a buggy or carriage. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of an axle and side view of the thill-coupling, showing the end of a thill-iron pivotally fastened and locked thereto. Fig. 3 is a rear view of a piece of the axle and the mechanism for locking the coupling. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a duplex bearing adapted to engage the journals of a thilliron and to be detachably fastened between the parallel mating parts of the main portion of the coupling. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the rear end portion of a thill-iron adapted to be detachably connected with the coupling. Y

The letter A. designates a vehicle-axle of common form.

B is the front end portion of the main part of my coupling-iron fitted to the front face of the axle and also to the under side of the axle and fixed to the axle by means of a U- shaped clip A2, that has screw-threaded ends c extended down through vertical bores in the part B and nuts CZ placed thereon, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

B"2 and B3 are mating parallel forward extensions of the part B, provided with recesses Serial No. '717,6 91. (No model.)

in their inside faces and journal-bearings f, intersecting the recesses, as shown in Fig. 1.

H is a duplex bearing in the form of a threesided frame fitted in size` and shape to enter the recesses in the mating parts B2and B3 and in combination vwith the bearings f produce complete separable journal-bearings, as rea of the main part Bv under the axle, as shown in Fig. 2, and pivotally connected with a wire frame n, 'that is hinged to theflugs lt of the duplex bearer H, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. A lever r, having elbow-shaped forks r at its lower end pivoted to the rearl corners of the extension of the main part B by means of a pin r, is provided with a shoulder rm near its top and adjustably connected with the rear ends of the bars m by means of links m@ as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

s is a loop pivotally connected with a lug s' on the top of the clip A2 in such a manner that it will engage the shoulder r of the lever r as required to retain the lever in a vertical position and the coupling mechanism locked as required to securely connect thillirons .l with the mating parts B2 and B3 of the coupling. To unlock the coupling, I simply release the top end of the lever r from the loop e, so that the lever end bars m can be readily adjusted as required for lifting the duplex bearer H, so as to allow the journals h of the thill-iron J to belifted out of the bearings f.

I am aware that caps or covers have been hinged to a clip to overlay the journals of a thill-iron in such a manner that their front ends could be lifted while their rear ends remained fastened; but my manner of forming` recesses and intersecting journal-bearings in the inside faces of the mating parts that project forward from a clip and fitting duplex bearers in said recesses to engage the journals is greatlyad vantageous in that the front parts of the bearers extend partly under the journals of the thill-iron and cannot be lifted until the rear portion of the duplex bearer is unlocked and lifted, so that it is impossible to accidentally disconnect the thill-iron from the clip as long as the rear end of the duplex bearer is locked.

From the foregoing description of the construction and function of each part the practical operation and utility of my invention will be readily understood by persons familiar with the art to which it pertains, and

WVhat I therefore claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a thill-coupling, a clip having mating forward projections, recesses in the inside faces of the projections, journal-bearings intersecting said recesses and a duplex bearer fitted in said recesses to extend partially under the journals of a thill-iron and means for detachably fastening the duplex bearer to operate in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

2. The duplex bearer I-l, having perforated lugs la, in combination with a coupling-iron B having mating parts B2 and B3 provided with recesses in their inside faces and journal-bearings f intersecting the said recesses, and means for detachably fastening the said duplex bearer, for the purposes stated.

3. A thill-coupling comprising a couplingiron fitted to the front and bottom of an axle, a clip fitted over the axle and provided with screw-threaded ends extended through bores in the coupling-iron and nuts on their ends, mating parallel bearers on the front of the coupling-iron provided with recesses on their inside faces and journal-bearings intersecting said recesses, a duplex journal-bearing fitted in said recesses, a lever having elbowshaped forks at its lower end and a shoulder at its top portion pivoted to the rear end of the coupling-iron, mating straight bars piv oted to the sides of the coupling-iron and con; nected with the elbow-shaped forks of the lever at their rear ends and with the duplex' bearer at their front ends, to operate in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

4. The thill-coupling consisting of the coupling-iron B having mating parts B2 and Bs provided With recesses in their inside faces and journal-bearings fintersecting said recesses, a clip A2 having screw-threaded ends c extended throughbores in the coupling-iron and secured thereto by nuts d, a duplex bearing H, having perforated lugs 7a, a lever r having elbowshaped forks r at its lower end and a shoulder r" at its top portion pivoted to the rear end of the coupling-i ron, a loop s pivoted to the top of the clip, two mating bars m pivoted to thesides of the coupling-iron and connected with the forks of the lever by links m' and connected with the duplex bearer 'by a frame n and a thill-iron J having journals h, all arranged and combined as shown and dcscribed.

WILLIAM W. GARNER. Witnesses:

R. H. ORWIG, THOMAS G. ORWIG.

vso 

